An Inconvenient Truth - Part II

quoting from Yahoo! News :


OSLO, Norway - Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

"I am deeply honored to receive the Nobel Peace Prize," Gore said. "We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity."

Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary on global warming, won an Academy Award this year and he had been widely expected to win the prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said global warming, "may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the earth's resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens on the world's most vulnerable countries. There may be increased danger of violent conflicts and wars, within and between states."

Gore said he would donate his share of the $1.5 million that accompanies the prize to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan nonprofit organization devoted to conveying the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

"His strong commitment, reflected in political activity, lectures, films and books, has strengthened the struggle against climate change," the Nobel citation said. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted."


God bless this guy, seriously. his movie, which i so hardworkingly promoted a few posts ago, is really good. and he seems really serious, and determined to do something about this global warming problem.
it's like this one-man-change-the-world-one-state-at-a-time thing. which in today's world, is highly commendable.
but this is only an excerpt from the article, though. the whole thing is too long and some parts of it are irrelevant.
and if i put it in, i'd get more complaints than ever about how long-winded and wordy my blogging style is. -.-"

i had something else to say. but i forgot, as usual. so, heh, stopping here.

~vid~